1st lesson:
Install Serenity OS.
2nd Lesson:
Figure out how to install XLibre (or Pheonix) on Serenity OS.
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1st lesson:
Install Serenity OS.
2nd Lesson:
Figure out how to install XLibre (or Pheonix) on Serenity OS.
Programming?
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Woke.
I'm Antigramming like a true Patriot.
Using arabic numerals to code? I thought this was merica!!!
Wasn't even the wildest. Before compsci I was doing mechanical engineering.
We had an assignment to design a railcar layout for transporting livestock. It gave the minimal parameters for the animals, established client driven acceptable losses for the livestock, etc...
We all cracked away at it. After we handed them all in, the profs were like "nowhere in the spec was the actual animals named, was no one curious?"
Silence.
They had given us a literal Nazi spec discovered post WWII. It was for moving people to fucking concentration camps.
"You're smart people. People are going to ask you to do bad things. They're going to try and hide thier intentions. Don't collaborate with Nazis. Don't ever use what I teach you to hurt people."
I would love to have a copy of this assignment! That reveal must have been a real gutpunch. Something that may have actually stuck with most students.
Those sound like bad-ass professors!
It's not even that "hardcore" of ideology honestly. It depends a lot on the lens you view it through your society. If it's far right, then saying "water is a human right!" is going to seem extreme leftism.
Not sure what the discussion was, but, I recall they changed terms like Master/slave a few years back (maybe in the linux kernel), to make things nicer. I have no problem with this (not a big deal).
I think changing "slave" is a good idea, but "master" isn't a problematic term; however I still prefer main because it makes more sense to me and it's already a common programming term.
All that being said, we clearly should've changed it to "The Mistress branch" instead.
Actually.. Found the discussion: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/master-slave-and-the-fight-over-offensive-terms-in-computing-kate-conger-new-york-times-april-13-2021
It was the Internet Engineering Task Force. But not sure if this is what is being referred to in this case
I am still shaking my head about this. Were it framed like "ahem, we don't like those words anymore and think that these are better", I would have no issues at all. But no, they just had to drag history of black people (for those about to be offended: I come from a place were "black" and even "removed" do not have any negative connotations whatsoever) into fucking programming. That is idiotic
Lool. Really?

IDE drives
maybe post the notes for critique? this is bait
I wouldn't want to be a CS teacher at this decade, more than half the code will be AI generated. Would just suck the life force out of you seeing how little students care about actually learning the stuff.
When I was a TA, I'm pretty sure 1/3 if the students plagiarized their programming assignments. Copy/pasting suspect snippets into Google would often bring up near-verbatim results, and a similarity tool would often reveal 3 students that either worked together or copied from the same source.
Would have saved us a lot of trouble if it had been this whole damn while.
What is the saying? Something about people who learn about how technology works begin to shun technology?
This may shock you, but if you think like this, you might be a hardcore leftist.
Also, I'm reminded of the Ghostbusters (1984) quote:
Dr. Raymond Stantz: Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've WORKED in the private sector. They expect results.
The quote is the least believable thing in this move about ghost blowjobs
Yup. I've been in academia and in private business. Academia pays terribly and expects a fuck-ton more work. I'm sure there's places where you can just sleaze by without doing much, but I never saw them. (Which isn't to say that all academic work is good work. I saw people who got far doing poor research, but they were also working very hard at it.)